They have raised the kursk nuclear submarine from the bottom of the arctic ocean and erected an overturned 80-ton crane at the Lindø shipyard after the 1999 hurricane. Now Dutch Mammoet with its muscle cranes must pull up a giant metal plug from Risø's largest research reactor.
The Annual Report reports on DD's activities in 2013 and reports on the results achieved against the performance contract.
Danish Decommissioning is dismantling experimental reactors and other nuclear installations on Risø. Part of our task is to deal with radioactive waste, and a small part of the total is "special waste".
In 2013, DD an important step forward towards removing and packing the inner parts of Denmark's largest research reactor DR3. We plan to lift the 22-ton steel plug at the reactor tank in spring 2014.
Danish Decommissioning has been granted DKK 1.1 million to prepare a decision-making basis for the Danish Parliament regarding the establishment of a Danish interim storage facility for low- and intermediate-level waste. This will be done in cooperation with GEUS and the Danish Radiation Protection Institute (SIS).
Follow the work to break down Denmark's largest research reactor DR3 from the former Risø Research Centre. Our task is to decontaminate the former experimental area on the Risø peninsula into a "green field" - i.e. to remove radioactivity and chemicals so that the area can be used without restrictions in the future. The DR3 reactor is one of the projects.
Danish Decommissioning had teamed up with Jan Sjöholm from 'Extrem Borr & Sågteknik AB' in Sweden, when the bearing holes from the top shelf in DR3 had to be removed.
Many years of teaching health physics have resulted in a book on the subject.
On 24 January 2013, the Finance Committee approved Act No 57, in which the Ministry of Health requests DKK 3 million from unused funds in Section 19.51.03 for Danish Decommissioning to finance costs associated with the characterisation and conditioning of radioactive waste.
GEUS has now submitted the results of the surrounding studies carried out in five municipalities with a view to finding the most suitable place for storing the radioactive waste.